Farmers
- started earlier than the stock market crash because overproduction
- so after the stock market crash they could no longer pay off there loans
- Causes
- overproduction
- agricultural exports to Europe exploded during the great war
- high prices before the war was good but after it was very band and they could not pay off the banks
- New deal programs
- Agricultural adjustment act (AAA) - payed farmers to make less so prices would remain good
- Rural electrification act (REA) - gave farmers electricity
- farm security administration - took pics of farmers to show that they were having it just as hard as the ones in the city also gave farmers money to buy supplies
- farm tenancy act
- soil conservation and domestic allotment act - cant tax just one group of people and saved soil conservation
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